Tag: sweden

Life on the trail after Nallostugan

22 November 2024

After the grueling traverse to Nallostugan, life on the trail settled into a rhythm. The days shortened as October pressed on, with darkness falling around 6-7 PM. I'd make camp or reach a hut in the twilight, cook whatever combination of spaghetti and cheese I could muster, and settle in for 13-hour nights. One evening, […]

Sweden Kungsleden trail in 2012 – traverse to Nallostugan

21 November 2024

Back in 2012, after several days on Sweden's Kungsleden trail, I faced what would become my greatest challenge yet: the seven-kilometer traverse to Nallostugan. What in summer would have been a straightforward trek turned into an epic battle through ever-deepening snow. "I was kind of having to wade through knee to thigh deep snow, or […]

The first thing that hit me about northern Sweden

20 November 2024

The first thing that hit me about northern Sweden in October wasn't the cold '€“ it was the solitude. After a 19-hour train journey from Stockholm to Abisko, armed with only a basic map from the local supermarket and nursing a persistent cold, I set off. My preparation had been minimal. The night before leaving […]

Hiking Epic Rap : Hiker Tim

9 June 2014

Join the hike-hop revolution! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfPTfX3PkWM Epic Hiking Rap : Hiker Tim Lyrics / Q&A Download free MP3 Inspired by Dan Bull's Skyrim Rap Hiker Tim on Twitter Hiker Tim on Facebook

Hiking Epic Rap : The Background

9 June 2014

So you've seen the Epic Hiking Rap, and now you want the background? Are you serious or is this a joke? I'll leave you to apply Poe's Law. Where did this start? For years, the University of Manchester Hiking Club had a tradition where a specific longstanding club member would write and present a poem […]

Welcome to My World

5 December 2012

As part of my plan to put together a video for every Wednesday in December, I decided to finish of a project I've been working on to tie all various bits of video from various trips I've been on into one montage. Here you have "Welcome To My World". If you can, I strongly recommend […]

No news is always good news

24 November 2012

For a while when I was younger, whenever I went away without my parents, I was confused. All my classmates and peers would always be in constant contact with their family, whilst my parents would cheerily wave goodbye and then eagerly listen to the second by second story upon my return. It took me a […]

#timontour Kungsleden/Abisko – Video Blog

25 October 2012

I recently got back from an epic backpacking adventure in Northern Sweden. It was essentially 12 days of walking through the Swedish mountains, in the Arctic Circle, on my own. Every day (ish) I made a video blog, and whilst I've not finished (not started actually!) processing the mass of photos and video I took, […]

I have returned! #timontour – Kungsleden/Abisko 2012

16 October 2012

So despite many exciting stories, I've returned from Northern Sweden, better than ever. Over the time I was there, I managed to amass about 80GB of photos (JPG not RAW) and video – that's roughly equivalent to 57,000 floppy disks or 117 CDs. As my current storage capabilities at home need a bit of a […]

#timontour Abisko/Kungsleden 2012

2 October 2012

When I first thought about going hiking in Northern Sweden, I had considered doing it in summer, with beautiful sunshine beating down, swimming in glacier fed lakes… In fact, I chose not to do it then because I didn't fancy 24 hour sunlight if I was trying to camp in a tent… In October, there will be […]

#timontour: Kungsleden2012 special

26 August 2012

In October, I'm going to do something I've been wanting to do for sometime. My plan is travel to northern Sweden to a place called Abisko in the Artic Circle and the walk southwards, on the long distance hiking trail called the Kungsleden (The Kings Trail), through one of Europe largest remaining wilderness areas. I've […]

The Pirates: Just a political party for a certain age group in Sweden?

4 February 2012

At Learning Without Frontiers Conference, Keri Facer, Professor of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University said: …in Sweden we have the first political party, that, if you like, is allying itself with a particular age group – the Pirate Party. I don't think this is true. I mean sure, in Sweden there's a political party called the […]